RE: overlays

I created some overlays a few months ago, with very good results, including
a company logo and a scanned signature that is virtually identical to the
original. I ended up using the AFP utilities to create the body of the
letter that we send out. AFP utilities are primitive, and it's a bear to
work with, but it made it much easier to match the body of the letter to the
text we were merging in and to get the text to fit into boxes on the
overlay. 

If you are using this to archive stuff in your outqs, be aware that if you
change an overlay that is used by an existing document, and reprint the
document, the reprinted version will use the new version of the overlay. 


Steve Morrison
Beacon Insurance
Phone 940-720-4672
Fax   940-720-4345

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Mike_Bramley@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:29 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: overlays

I'm looking at *OVL overlays as a possible solution for printing a smarter
invoice on release 5.1
(a) is this technique outdated and I should be using something else. What
techniques do people use?
(b) if not outdated. I've downloaded the printer driver to write out an
overlay from MS Word and I can get IBM AFP 600 to work. Transferred to
iseries I can create an overlay CRTOVL and use it.  If I  select a named
IBM printer of appropriate type will I get 'better' prints?
(c) I tried a random selection of named printers and it doesn't seem to
create an overlay that CRTOVL recognises. Get error 02. And the contents of
the uploaded overlay 'source' looks different to that for IBM AFP 600. Any
ideas?

Any help much appreciated.
regards
Mike





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